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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : English Literature

Undergraduate Course: Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry (ENLI10257)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course re-examines the aesthetics of canonical modern poets. The writers it explores did not just write influential verse, but also criticism. In their essays, letters, books and manifestoes, they rank as some of the most influential contributors to poetics in the twentieth-century. We will read their poetry alongside and against their discursive ideas about art, building-up a sense of their aesthetic contexts, and of their various interconnections and differences. We will also discuss their relevance in the early twenty-first century; and use their work to discuss the idea of formalist criticism, re-examining the tenets of 'New Criticism'.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: ( English Literature 1 (ENLI08001) OR Scottish Literature 1 (ENLI08016)) AND ( English Literature 2 (ENLI08003) OR Scottish Literature 2 (ENLI08004))
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential course texts.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Students successfully completing the course will develop:

- a familiarity with both the poetic and the critical writings of a range of influential 20th century poets
- an ability to assess the relationship between the critical thinking of the writers concerned and their own poetic output
- an understanding of the aesthetic and intellectual contexts in which these writers worked, their interconnections and differences
- an awareness of the significance of these writers? work for the development of critical thinking about poetry in the twentieth and twenty first centuries
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature.
Additional Class Delivery Information 1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). 1 hour a week attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Alan Gillis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3050
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Course secretaryMrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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